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… transport difficult. In its ‘Fifth Assessment Report’1, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that it is ‘now 95% certain that humans are the main cause of current global warming’. It is extremely likely that this is a result of increased concentrations of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon, in the Earth’s atmosphere. Impacts attributed to climate change caused by increased…

… all existing projects and initiatives that are climate change adaptation related. • Set a formal process to examine the nature of impacts climate change is likely to have on the Council’s own operations and the Inverclyde area as a whole. The process should follow the criteria set under the ‘Scotland Climate Change Adaptation Programme’. • Consider possible climate change adaptation projects…

… carbon emissions by 13.7% over the period 2007/08 to 2016/17. To continue the process of tackling climate change, the Council has released this Climate Change Plan. The reason for changing the name from Carbon Management Plan to Climate Change Plan is that this Plan will consider both climate change mitigation and adaptation. The previous Greenock, from the east 3 CLIMATE CHANGE PLAN 2018…

… Carbon Management Plans were concerned only with mitigation through reducing the Council’s carbon emissions. This Climate Change Plan seeks to not only address carbon reduction but to also look at how the Council can adapt to current and future climate change. In terms of carbon emissions, the Climate Change Plan will continue to target the sources mentioned above. The previous Carbon Management…

… the public sector which is expected to take the lead in tackling climate change. For example, in its draft Climate Change Plan, the Scottish Government has set a target for 94% of non-domestic buildings to have heating and cooling supplied by low carbon technologies. Moreover, the Scottish Government proposes that a statutory duty be placed on local authorities to develop ‘Local Heat and Energy…